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Jennings set for top role in P&I group

The new chief executive of the North of England Club is set to take on the additional responsibility of being chairman of the International Group of protection-and-indemnity clubs.

Paul Jennings, 55, has emerged as the front runner to replace the UK Club’s Hugo Wynn-Williams, 62, who is due to complete his three-year term as chairman in November.

Tradition

Jennings continues a tradition that the chairman of the International Group’s reinsurance subcommittee moves up to chairmanship of the organisation that links the 13 leading P&I clubs.

He joined the Newcastle P&I Club as a young law graduate in 1984, rising to be the club’s underwriter by the time of the 1998 merger with the North of England Club.

Jennings is a more than 30-year veteran of the P&I business who has spent most of his career as an underwriter.

He took over as joint managing director of the North of England Club in 2009 but his fellow managing director, Alan Wilson, is due to move to a two-day week from May, with Jennings becoming the sole hand on the helm.

New recruit

The North of England Club has, meanwhile, recruited former UK Club chief operating officer, Simon Main, as technical underwriting director, in a move that is seen as reinforcing their executive team in preparation for Jenning’s election as chairman of the International Group.

Main, 58, spent more than 25 years with Thomas Miller, managers of the UK Club, but left in May last year.

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Jennings set for top role in P&I group

The new chief executive of the North of England Club is set to take on the additional responsibility of being chairman of the International Group of protection-and-indemnity clubs.

Paul Jennings, 55, has emerged as the front runner to replace the UK Club’s Hugo Wynn-Williams, 62, who is due to complete his three-year term as chairman in November.

Tradition

Jennings continues a tradition that the chairman of the International Group’s reinsurance subcommittee moves up to chairmanship of the organisation that links the 13 leading P&I clubs.

He joined the Newcastle P&I Club as a young law graduate in 1984, rising to be the club’s underwriter by the time of the 1998 merger with the North of England Club.

Jennings is a more than 30-year veteran of the P&I business who has spent most of his career as an underwriter.

He took over as joint managing director of the North of England Club in 2009 but his fellow managing director, Alan Wilson, is due to move to a two-day week from May, with Jennings becoming the sole hand on the helm.

New recruit

The North of England Club has, meanwhile, recruited former UK Club chief operating officer, Simon Main, as technical underwriting director, in a move that is seen as reinforcing their executive team in preparation for Jenning’s election as chairman of the International Group.

Main, 58, spent more than 25 years with Thomas Miller, managers of the UK Club, but left in May last year.